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VC1177    Kenneth Campbell

Name   Kenneth Campbell   No.     POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1177   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 22 Squadron

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Flying Officer

Rank End Of Career   Flying Officer

Place Of Birth   Saltcoats, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Place Of Death   Brest Harbour, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Cimetiere Kerfautras, Brest, Finistere, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.  Plot XL, Row I, Grave 10

Gazetted    13 March 1942

VC Presented   23 June 1943, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Cimetiere Kerfautras, Brest, Finistere, France

P  Named on War Memorial, Saltcoats, Ayrshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Stevenston, Ayrshire

P  Memorial Stone Seat,  Sedbergh School, Cumbria

P  Named on War Memorial Cloisters, Sedbergh School, Cumbria

Named on War Memorial, Clare College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

P  Named on RAF VC Memorial,  St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London

P  Memorial Bench, Ardrossen Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire

Kenneth Campbell Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Campbell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk

P  Campbell Road, Tangmere, West Sussex

P  Campbell Road, Innsworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Campbell Drive, Swanton Morley, Norfolk

Named on War Memorial, Ardrossan Academy, Sorbie Road, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire

By The Way…

VC Held By

Held by the 22nd Squadron, RAF Valley, Anglesey

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BORN    21 April 1917

DIED   6 April 1941   AGE   23

VC Won   6 April 1941    AGE    23

Place VC Won   Brest Harbour, France

War/Campaign   Second World War

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